the president of the united states and vice president joe biden in the rose garden. >> good afternoon, everybody. ten days ago, the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century. yesterday the united states presented a powerful case that the syrian government was responsible for this attack on its own people. our intelligence shows the assad regime and forces preparing to use chemical weapons, launching rockets in the highly populated suburbs of damascus, and acknowledging that chemical weapons attack took place. all of this corroborates what the world can plainly see. hospitals overflowing with victims. terrible images of the dead. all tol-- several hundred child were killed. young boys and girls gassed to death by their own government. this attack is an assault on human dignity. it also presents a serious danger to our national security. it risks making a mockery of the global prohibition of the use of chemical weapons. endangers our friends and partners along syria's borders. including israel, jor